Nobel Laureate MacDiarmid, Entrepreneur Chen
To be Featured at Jan. 17 MIT Enterprise Forum at UTD

‘A
Conversation with Two Great Inventors of the Future’

RICHARDSON, Texas (Jan. 3, 2002) - “A conversation with two great
inventors of the future,” featuring Nobel laureate Dr. Alan G.
MacDiarmid and entrepreneur Wu-Fu Chen, is the topic of the MIT
Enterprise Forum to be held on Thursday, Jan. 17, at The University of
Texas at Dallas.

The MIT Enterprise Forum is sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology Alumnae Association. The Jan. 17 program also will be
sponsored by the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the Chinese Institute of
Engineers/USA (CIE/USA).

MacDiarmid, who is the Blanchard Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Pennsylvania, won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
his pioneering work with synthetic metals. He recently joined UTD as
distinguished scholar in residence, chairman of the advisory board of
UTD’s NanoTech Institute and as special science advisor to UTD
President Franklyn G. Jenifer.

Chen has founded and invested in numerous high-technology start-up
companies in the communications and networking fields. He was elected
one of the top 10 entrepreneurs of 2000 by Red Herring magazine and has
been ranked as one of the top 100 venture investors in the U.S. by
Forbes magazine.

A professional interviewer will lead the discussion with MacDiarmid
and Chen in a casual conversation style. The broad topic of the program
will be innovation in both technology and entrepreneurship.

The forum will be held in the UTD Conference Center on the university’s
campus in Richardson. A light buffet will be served beginning at 5 p.m.,
followed by the program beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Members of the public are invited to attend the forum. The admission
cost is $35 for the general public, $25 for CIE/USA members and $10 for
students.

The University of Texas at Dallas, located
at the convergence of Richardson, Plano and Dallas in the heart of the
complex of major multinational technology corporations known as the
Telecom Corridor, enrolls more than 7,000 undergraduate and 5,000
graduate students. The school’s freshman class traditionally stands at
the forefront of Texas state universities in terms of average SAT
scores. The university offers a broad assortment of bachelor’s, master’s
and doctoral degree programs. For additional information about UTD,
please visit the university’s web site at www.utdallas.edu.